The largest 1080 predator control operation ever attempted in New Zealand will be carried out in Kahurangi National Park later this month, as part of a national effort to combat soaring rat and stoat numbers in the conservation estate. This year’s large beech flowering and mast seeding event has created a huge increase in food […]

The tiny rodents that underpin the Arctic food chain, famed for their classic boom-and-bust cycle of population explosions, are succumbing to the warming effects of climate change. Their decline is being felt throughout the entire ecosystem. New research out today in the journal Nature finds that the periodic explosions in lemming numbers their predators […]

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Reporter Paul Gorman departs The Press after 14 years, including a stint spent getting to grips with earthquake science.
Paul takes up a position as senior communications advisor at the University of Otago at the end of January, moving south to Dunedin to immerse himself in research – and assist scientists communicate it.
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